2025 Exhibitors
Seattle Art Book Fair will host 85+ local, national, and international artists, designers, and organizations!
See below for the full lineup and descriptions!
See below for the full lineup and descriptions!
Community Tables
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art (BIMA)
Bricolage
| AsAm Zine Fest |
| Books to Prisoners |
| Garfield High School |
| Pongo Poetry Project |
| Puget Sound Book Artists (PSBA) |
| Real Change Newspaper |
| SPL ZAPP Zine Archive |
Photo courtesy Florence Liu
2025 Exhibitors
Asterism Books
Secret Room Press
51 Personae
Shanghai
Shanghai
51 Personae is a collaborative art project, publishing initiative, and cooperative platform. It started as a Shanghai Biennale off-site program, composed of 51 events in urban Shanghai based on individual/group experiences/actions within the context of urban transformation (2016-2017). Since 2018 onwards, it has evolved into a self-sustaining independent art publishing project, believing that publishing is both an urgent and valid artistic practice in contemporary cultural practice. It places special emphasis on life experiences in Asia and the Third World, as well as marginalized voices under suppression. It collaborate with individual artists, designers, translators, collectives and self-organized social forms in Asia and beyond, exploring the forms, possibilities and potential of realism in art as expressive actions today.
A. T. Pratt
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
I have been publishing my art books, comics, and zines since 2010, my Freshman year at RISD. I have always strove to create new and innovative forms of the self published hand bound volume, and constantly experiment with alternate page turns, foldouts, and popups to create never before seen reading experiences. I have been designing for risograph printing for a decade but since I teach at SVA I started printing my own work at their risolab this year and have been pushing forward my approach to color in my self publication. It appeals to me to be able to control every aspect of creation from idea, to countless prototypes, writing, drawing, printing, printing, binding and distribution. I also enjoy being able to pass along what I learn in my own practice onto a new generation of artists, authors, self-publishers as a teacher. Keeping print thriving by encouraging the most diverse range of authors and approaches is so exciting to me and makes me proud to devote my life to art in print.
Adelaide Blair
Seattle
Seattle
Adelaide Blair is a Seattle-based artist, writer, and curator who has been making books/zines/comics since 1986 and has recently started publishing works by other writers and artists. She is also The Pacific Northwest Conceptual Art Center (a conceptual art project) and aims to have at least one book per year published under that imprint.
afterhours
Seattle
Seattle
afterhours
is all about getting comfy, making, experimentation and play. I work
out of the CAM Printshop and a lot of my design, photography and collage
work is showcased in a zine format, letting me explore different ways
of binding and printing methods and sharing my pov in the work.
Alex Belardo Kostiw
Chicago
Chicago
I've been self-publishing since 2014, typically 3-4 titles a year. My practice deals in poetic text and image, visual structures of comics, and conceptually driven forms to tell stories about human relationships and the strangeness in everyday experiences. I often explore myth-making, in-betweenness, modes of inter/active reading, and books as installations. My books are in several collections, including the Joan Flasch Artist's Book Collection, Chicago Zine Collection at the University of Chicago Library, Zine and Comics Collection at the MassArt Library, Decker Library at MICA, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Pratt Institute Artist's Books Collection, RISD Artist's Books Collection, Zine Collection at Tufts SMFA Library, and Haas Arts Library Special Collections at Yale. I teach artist's books and narrative-driven design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as risography at a community print shop, Spudnik Press, and comics workshops for special events.
ANEMONE
Seattle
Seattle
ANEMONE is a collaboration and artist initiative by Amelia Greenhall and Adam Greenhall. We work on publishing, sewing pattern production, printmaking, risograph, consulting, research, software development, design, mapmaking, and other projects. We make a free Mac app called Spectrolite that helps people make colorful risograph and lay out books and zines more easily. Our books are often on topics of how-to, climate, community, reading recs, food, and local guides.
Anna Moore
Port Townsend
Port Townsend
I am a graphic designer who has been making books for about 10 years. I've had books shown in book exhibitions and enjoying making both elaborate artist books and simpler, more accessible zines.
Antenna Press
New Orleans
New Orleans
Antenna opened Paper Machine in 2017, to house full service digital print operations. Paper Machine has served as an community print shop, provided studio and residency spaces for visiting and local artists, hosted artists-in-residence and small scale exhibitions, as well as offering technical support from start to finish including education, consultation, and sharing applicable resources, to local publishers, partnering with numerous local organizations on the production of printed matter. Antenna Press is the publishing arm of the organization. Antenna Press is one of the few publishers in the Southeast with in-house print production. Through Paper Machine, Antenna Press allows artists and writers to experience the production of a book: layout, printing, and binding. This supportive hands-on approach allows artists to develop their book projects using different print mediums including digital printing, letterpress, book and zine making.
Asterism Books
Seattle
Seattle
Asterism Books is a trade distributor and online bookshop representing more than 180 of the best small literary publishers from around the world.
Atelier Burano
Berlin/Buenos Aires
Berlin/Buenos Aires
Atelier Burano is a publisher and graphic studio founded in 2015 and established between Buenos Aires and Berlin. Focused on the creation of art books and limited edition prints, the publisher is dedicated to spreading diverse narratives while exploring the boundaries of the printed image.
As a publisher we see editorial projects as an integral process where tasks are linked from the very beginning, conceiving the production of a book in the confluence between traditional printmaking techniques, design and contemporary art practices.
We also aim to produce graphic works that hold social and cultural heritage. We strongly believe in self-publication and alternative platforms of circulation as disciplines that essentially allow us to relate to our time by selecting and ordering those events that are relevant to us and to our particular perspective of seeing, processing and interpreting the world.
Awkward Ladies Club
Alameda
Alameda
Amy Burek is an California-based artist whose work explores how science, medicine, and technology have shaped the ways we perceive and interact with the world around us. Her publishing project Awkward Ladies Club focuses on memoir, knowledge-sharing, and other non-fiction works. Amy is a co-founder of Chute Studio, a collaborative Risograph studio in Oakland, CA, and a former organizer of San Francisco Zine Fest.
BearBear
Milwaukee
Milwaukee
BearBear launched as a self-publishing Risograph studio in 2019 by two artists, Diana Chu and Ben Grzenia, who desired to see their work on bookshelves on their own terms. Inspired by DIY zine culture and gig-poster screen prints, BearBear attends to the intricate details of book design with a wabi-sabi ethos. BearBear's art books act as a wholesome yet radical antidote to homogenous mass-produced volumes. The studio aspires to deliver contemporary ideas of selfhood + beauty, with a retro aesthetic, to the creative class's bookshelves and imaginations. We are basedin in Milwaukee, WI. BearBear is AAPI and first-generation co-owned.
Benschop Books
Denver
Denver
Benschop Books publishes handmade photography books and zines. Projects range from self published to group zines to artist collaborations.
Berm
Portland
Portland
Berm is a contemporary arts magazine based in Portland. Each issue of Berm asks artists to reflect on a theme to create new work for the print-only magazine. We have a focus on process and rate transparency, as well as building up conversations about contemporary art.
Boris & Boris & Ellis
Seattle
Seattle
As UW Design students, we participated in the 2023 Art Book Fair, and the experience inspired us to pursue more projects in the genre. We're excited about sharing stories and connecting with Seattle's artists, writers, and DIY enthusiasts at SABF.
Ellis is producing a zine about ghost signs in Seattle, aiming to capture this fleeting evidence of city history and inspire an interest in historic preservation. He would love to be able to share this project with fellow Seattleites and zine-enjoyers.
Boris&Boris is a small collective made up of designers Victoria Hannah and Ovi Johnson fueled by their satirical passion for all things concrete and angular. Looking to bring levity to the stark nature of brutalist architecture, Boris&Boris have produced a brutalist baby catalog and are working on a pin-up calendar for brutalist babes next.
Broccoli
Portland
Portland
Broccoli is a publisher of unusual delights. We make magazines, art books, and oracle decks all designed to spark curiosity. We are woman-owned and have been publishing since 2017.
Bug Love Books
Richmond
Richmond
We are publishers and distributors of zines, books, prints and original art of artists from Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela. Some projects we fund and produce in USA and other projects we have mailed from these countries. We cuWe formally started Bug Love Books 2024 with the goal to share the perspectives and work of these artists with new audiences in the USA and to help with artistic and monetary opportunities for these artists . We are based in Richmond, Virginia.
Cactus Press Zines
Seattle
Seattle
Cactus
Press is the zine practice of Cameron Reeder. It serves as a
self-publishing method for my own photography, and has grown to include
my graphic design and artwork, as well as the work of friends. I
graduated from UW Design in 2024, through which I participated in the
SABF in 2023 and 2024. I’m excited to launch Cactus Press for the first
time at SABF 25!
Chin Music Press
Seattle
Seattle
The year 2025 will mark 20 years of book publishing for Chin Music Press. Most of our books are considered art books.
Cold Cube Press
Seattle
Seattle
Cold Cube Press is a risograph publishing and printing project founded in Seattle in 2015 by Aidan Fitzgerald and Michael Heck. We specialize in working with artists from all over the world in various mediums, including: illustration, comics, photography and more.
Container Corps
Portland
Portland
Container Corps is a publication design studio, printshop, bindery, and exhibition space that serves as a platform for the creation, distribution, and discussion of new arts publications. We publish books-as-projects, or books-as-works in themselves, or primary sources. Our publications use the means of their production as an avenue of expression.
The books we publish are collaborations between artists and their ideas and our skills as editors, publication designers, and printmakers. They are works of art in themselves, rather than documentation of works in other media.
Our vertically integrated, design/build studio allows ideas (concepts, images, texts, research), materials (paper, ink, board, cloth, thread, glue), and technique (layout, typography, printmaking, binding) to coalesce into a fully realized type of publication.
Cornish College of the Arts
Seattle
Seattle
We are a collective of students as well as practicing Designers and Illustrators that are interested in the whole arch of publications, from content development to conception, design, illustration, all the way to production and publication. Our work explores the possibilities of booklets, zines, graphic novels, and other printed forms of visual communications. In a world of ever-evolving technology, we celebrate the enduring power of print—a medium that invites exploration and connects people through time and place. Through our low-budget publications, we honor the tradition of the book, creating pieces meant to find their perfect readers, travel hand to hand, and spark connections between like-minded people, and inspire imagination.
Curious Publishing
Upland
Upland
Curious Publishing is Non-Profit 501(c)3 Organization, and is 100% artist owned and operated since 2017. We tell the stories of artists of all practices who reside throughout San Bernardino, Los Angeles, and the High Desert Communities through one of a kind, small-run artbooks designed and printed in Southern California. We aim to celebrate the rich diaspora of Inland Empire, Womxn, BIPOC and Queer Artists first and foremost.
Current Editions
Emeryville
Emeryville
Current Editions (Emeryville, CA) celebrates micro histories, niche artifacts, and public discourse. An artist-run press formed by Jessalyn Aaland and Paul Morgan in 2017, our publications range from protests on San Francisco's Market Street to New England's unique contribution to target sports. For fans of: vernacular, curiosity, information architecture.
We research, design, and publish booklets plus assorted ephemera. Based in Emeryville, California, it is a project of Jessalyn Aaland and Paul Morgan.
D.R.Y.
Oakland
Oakland
DRY. comprises Daniel Zhou, Raul Higuera, and Yasmeen Abedifard, all Bay Area-based comic artists. They make cartoons, zines, screen & riso prints, hand made apparel, ceramics, and plenty of mistakes.
Daria Tessler
Portland
Portland
I have been making books, mini comics, zines and comics for 23 years. I self publish, including books which have silkscreened covers or are fully screenprinted, and have comic books published by Fantagraphics, Floating World Comics and Perfectly Acceptable Press.
Each and Every Press
Ferndale
Ferndale
Each and Every Press is an independent Risograph press focused on the production of experimental publications made in collaboration with emerging artists. These include a modular booklet that traces an anecdote passed between ceramicists about how roof tile used to be shaped to the hand of the workers making it, a book that follows an artist's thoughts in and out of the studio through cell phone photos of her walks, and an unbound series of prints featuring virtual objects created by feeding reality TV show Love Island into 3D modeling software.
Run by artists Rosa Glaessner Novak and Brendan Page, work from the press often focuses on using the Risograph to work with nontraditional subject matter, materials, and processes and combining ceramic practice with print.
Ediciones Concordia Mx
Querétaro
Querétaro
Ediciones Concordia Mx is an independent screen printed art book press run by Mexican artists LD Morán and Nando Murio. We started working together in 2019, focusing on the unlimited possibilities of image creation, material exploration, and handmade books. At Concordia our primary goal is to keep the screen printing method innovative and foster ideas that are suited for the medium. We are Located in Querétaro, México. At Ediciones Concordia one of the most important aspects we take into consideration is working with our hands, the printing craft as a language, the body as a mechanical tool. We are no good with words, the gestures and communication is exclusively through images, we use symbols and figures to express identity, belonging and ideas
Editions
Seattle
Seattle
We are Seattle's center for Book Arts where people come to learn and practice.
Erika Rier
Portland
Portland
I've been making zines, comics, and art books for 30 years. My current books are hybrids of these three featuring hand cut pages, fold outs, and other interactive features. I use folklore style stories to explore feminism, politics, and mental health.
Everything Matters
Portland
Portland
Everything Matters is a small, combo art/academic press dedicated to using cheap and hot printed matter to distribute words, ideas, and things, taking up physical distribution as an urgent political project of local, democratic world-building. We publish essays (both cheeky and serious), art books and zines, and are currently working on a quarterly that combines our abiding love for both deep dark void shit, and importantly nonsensical trivialities.
Our humble press is made up of a DC based philosopher, a Mexico City based Fulbright literature scholar, and a Portland based printer and typesetter; a jolly group of bookish nerds who happened to get their hands on a risograph.
EXTRA CREDIT
Seoul/NYC
Seoul/NYC
I first stumbled into RISO printing and zine-making while teaching high school computer science in New York to create materials for my students, but my practice has grown more experimental. Each zine starts as a teaching tool, but play and experimentation transform it into a tactile experience of discovery and humor.
EC zines cover topics from snacks to Korean language and coding with Javascript, rooted in my ties to open-source tech educators and the Korean-American diaspora. Every zine is an artifact of my experiences as a learner and teacher and a vehicle for new connections through a shared joy of learning.
For the Birds Trapped in Airports
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
For the Birds Trapped in Airports is an imprint, bindery, and space where learning happens.
We provide resources and guidance for those designing, making and publishing books.
For the Birds Trapped in Airports publishes artists who commit the growth of their careers to the care and well-being of their peers. We work in a model where all published authors share collective book profits, partnerships and resources with one another. Publishing within our studio is structurally designed to foster long-term care and mutual support systems between the artists we work with.
With our production resources for publishing, we also offer services to institutions and individual artists on a commission (non-published) basis for consultations, presentations, design, printing, binding, and other hand-made artist book production. We also offer these services to our peers in the Means of Books network at a sliding scale.
Girl Noise Press
Seattle
Seattle
Girl Noise Press is an independent publishing house based in Seattle, WA. We publish works that sound like they were written secretly by a girl in her bedroom. As a girl who grew up secretly writing and creating in her bedroom, I want to connect our books with the network of girls making secret art in their bedrooms and show them that they don't have to throw or hide their art away. They can share it with the world. We're on a mission to connect those bedrooms.
Grey Zone Press & Friends
Seattle
Seattle
Grey Zone Press is the imprint of Ellen Sollod, who has made artist books since the 1980s. Her work is in many collections, including NYPL, UW, Yale University, and NMWA. Her books range from traditional codex books to accordion style and book-like objects on diverse subjects.
Lisa Ahlberg is interested in people's relationship to place. She has produced numerous zines and handmade books including ""Rat City Streets,"" ""White Center,"" ""White Center Studio Portraits,"" "" Step Right Up,"" "" A Year of Protests.""
Constance Brinkley has created limited edition books of the ""Dancing 'Til Dusk"" events for 12 years. She has also created numerous zines of street photography including ""Hidden Identities,"" ""Watchful Eyes,"" and ""Feet on the Street."" ""Small Box, Big Memories,"" features loose photographs from her travels.
Lisa and Connie have completed two collaborations: ""I Wish it Would Rain"" and ""An Evening at the Panama.""
Half Letter Press / Temporary Services
Chicago and Fort Wayne
Chicago and Fort Wayne
Half Letter Press is a publishing imprint and online store initiated by Temporary Services. Temporary Services is now two people—Brett Bloom & Marc Fischer. We have published booklets as an element of our collaborative work since 1998. We created Half Letter Press to publish and distribute book and booklet length works by ourselves and others. We build long-term support and expanded audiences for people that work creatively in experimental ways. We are particularly interested in supporting people and projects that have had difficulty finding financial and promotional assistance through mainstream commercial channels. Lately we have been drawing more on our artist publishing community as participants in our publications.
Historical Seditions
Seattle
Seattle
We are a collective indie press with a primary focus on the history of radical movements and resistance by marginalized groups. We have a huge library of local queer and bipoc history zines. Additionally we print and produce a lot of miscellaneous art, poetry, harm reduction, mutual aid, and more zines created by us and our friends, including "Sabotage Noise" a monthly zine with intervies and event calendars currently on its 17th issue.
HOMOCATS
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
HOMOCATS is a visual art and zine publication connecting the modern popularity of the feline with social politics. Our mission aims to fight phobias, propose equal rights, combat cultural stereotypes, question social norms, resist Trumpism, and make the world a better place.
The HOMOCATS were created by Brooklyn artist J. Morrison in 2010 during an art residency at the Anderson Ranch, CO. The inspiration came after the end of Bush's presidency and the start of Obama's. It was also before gay marriage and Affordable Care Act passed in the US. Being an avid cat lover and a political artist, the idea was to combine the humor of the feline with social commentary through a zine.
I based my drawings from early cat memes such as ""I Can Has Cheezburger"" and ""LOLCats"", but wanted to insert queer activism into my images. The first page I made was "We Are Tired of Homophobia," followed by "Equal Rights" and "Trans-Positive," which unfortunately are still relevant years later.
inner loop press
Philadelphia
Philadelphia
inner loop press is a small-batch Risograph press located in Philadelphia operated by designer and software engineer Tanya Brassie. Its operating principle is to publish information as art, using design and print to present topics related to modern society (infrastructure, pollution, technology, etc.) in an accessible and engaging format. Recent publications include: the Toxic Lagoons series, a series of zines investigating Superfund sites across the United States, Space Trash, a zine dedicated to the consequences of space exploration and Data Centers, a zine that takes users through a data center to learn about this critical piece of hidden infrastructure.
inner loop also publishes lighter fare, such as User Friendly, an annual catalog of web components peddled by the imaginary User Friendly corporation (catalog 2 coming soon!), "self-help" pamphlets, and abstract artists' books on topics such as the desert, cyberspace and materials.
Insert Press
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
Insert Press produces innovative art & literature in Los Angeles, CA.
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We endeavor to create dynamic conversations among various artistic disciplines and to support emerging artists and writers in the interest of contemporary arts and letters.
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General Projects, our modest 185 sq. ft. gallery in Lincoln Heights, serves as an extension of the press, exhibiting contemporary visual art and often generating artist books and editions.
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Our Manifestoh! series, edited by Shook, publishes works in translation from the contemporary and historical avant-garde.
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The Insert Press catalog features a diverse assortment of books and print editions, from hardbound volumes to unique handmade editions.
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Since 2005 Insert Press has published experimental literature and books of contemporary art. We are eagerly anticipating our upcoming 20th anniversary and planning to celebrate with some exciting projects.
Ivy Zheyu Chen / UPON
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
UPON is a New York-based art and publishing studio founded by Ivy Zheyu Chen, with only one brief — Explore Anything for Fun and Experience. Our recent work focuses on random thoughts and the experiments of whimsical word-image interaction. With appearances at various art book fairs, our work has been collected by the Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum, Yale University, Rhode Island School of Design, Jameel Arts Centre Dubai, and many more.
Jordan Monloire & Tate Farrell
Seattle
Seattle
Jordan Monloire's photographic process transcends the simple act of capturing images by weaving together sentimental values and constant, iterative printing. Her medium of choice is analog film, consisting mostly of classic, documentative portraiture. With her commitment to developing her own film and printing in the darkroom, she honors the tactile nature of photography, ornamentation, and book making. The images are particularly attuned to storytelling - owing to her route of survival. With every stone turned on the path of becoming her genuine self, her work has been shaped by the crossroads of desire, labor, the sincerity within fantasy, and the illusions of true love. She is currently an artist in residence at Actualize Space, located in the heart of downtown Seattle. Most recently, she was included in the Downtown Seattle Association's latest public art project, The Plaza Project.
Tate Farrell is an artist from Seattle, whose practice is focused on photography & bookmaking. His work is often concerned with portraiture & aims to place people in an emotional environment.
In 202, he completed a BS in Wildlife Management & Conservation, & since then has been working on a long term book project about the United State's presence in Antarctica. He has also produced 5 other soft-bound books in that time, exploring youth culture in Seattle, wildlife management systems in southern Africa & boyhood.
Juicy Red Studio
Seattle
Seattle
Juicy Red Studio is a collaboration project of Bob Schriver and Meg O'Brien. We specialize in small, risoprinted publications and art prints centered around Seattle culture and history.
Living Room Press
Seattle
Seattle
Living Room Press is a Seattle based Risograph publisher focusing on comics and zines.
Mara Gervais
Davis
Davis
I make zines and I self-publish all my own work in my garage with a Risograph GR 1700. I travel to zine fests and art book fairs across the US.
MishMash
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Mish Mash is a small press, publisher and art project run by Latinx artist Michelle Hernandez Vega. Coming from a background in installation art, I have been interested in the compact, interactive and combined media possibilities of bookmaking and publishing. Through collaborations with other underrepresented artists, MishMash provides endless opportunities to explore the portability of large ideas and world building through materiality and bookmaking.
Moniker Press
Vancouver
Vancouver
Moniker Press is a small risograph print studio and publishing project that works collaboratively with artists to produce small editions of books, zines and print ephemera. Located in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
Monograph Bookwerks
Portland
Portland
We are an art bookstore that offers new, used and rare art books and related ephemera, artists' books, prints, exhibition documents, and counterculture, queer, punk and radical material. Heading into our 15th year, we have exhibited at over 20 art book fairs and for the Vancouver (BC) Art Book Fair in 2016 we produced an exhibition on Canadian conceptual artists' ephemera from the 1960s-'70s at the Vancouver Art Gallery. We are not a publisher but actively collect and present rare and unusual art books, archives of artists' documents and ephemera, and original art, primarily from the 20th Century.
Most Ancient
Portland
Portland
Most Ancient is a collaborative studio that crafts printed books and immersive virtual worlds. We embrace a wide range of formats, including comics, zines, art books, mail art, interactive games, virtual reality experiences, and supplemental printed ephemeral for our digital projects.
Founded in 2010 by Veronica Graham, Most Ancient originally published experimental comics. Over the years it has grown to include exhibitions, live performances, Virtual Reality demos and participation in national and international book fairs.
Our books have been collected by SFMoMA, MoMA, The New York Public Library, The Library of Congress, Stanford University, Yale University, and other public and private collections.
National Monument Press
Oakland
Oakland
National Monument Press is a publishing project by Zach Clark, located in Oakland California, focused on supporting uniquely American stories through small edition artist books, zines, printed ephemera, and curatorial projects, completed largely through collaboration with other artists.
NEOGLYPHIC MEDIA
Bellingham
Bellingham
NEOGLYPHIC MEDIA is a publisher of idiosyncratic visual media at the intersection of art and comics, between the gallery and the pulp bins. With one foot in the detritus piles of history and another outstretched into the unknown.
NEUE DAYS
Vancouver
Vancouver
Our involvement with art books and publishing take the form of handmade prints, zines and books that express our curiosity and wonder of the world. Inspired by moments of the everyday, we see our independent publishing practice as a way to share anecdotes about our lives.
Working closely with local Vancouver based print studios, we experiment with different materials, forms, and print processes, including digital printing, risography, and printmaking. The hands-on and collaborative process in combining design and craft is where we find the joy in self-publishing art books.
NIGHTED
Eureka
Eureka
NIGHTED is a photography and story based publishing house that shows you the things that happen when the world's not watching.
Outlet PDX
Portland
Portland
We are a small risograph print shop and community art space that teaches workshops and provides printing services for all sorts of folks. We love printing zines and supporting our community in the creation of some truly gorgeous risograph art books that we sell in our brick-and-mortar shop. We see our shop as an incubator for zine and book makers who are new to self-publishing and we love teaching classes on how to get your zines out into the world. Owners Kate Bingaman-Burt & Leland Vaughan create colorful risograph zines about objects, consumption, food, and weird films and are working on an experimental risograph swatch/info book they are hoping to launch at SABF 2025!
Page Turner Fellows
Seattle
Seattle
Paper Press Punch
Seattle
Seattle
We are a risograph print and book studio, printing for both ourselves (Jessica Hoffman and Justin Quinlan) and artists in the community. We have exhibited at SABF since the beginning and are heavily involved with Short Run Seattle.
Pearl Slug Studio
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Pearl Slug Studio is an independent publishing house. Rooted in the Simplified Chinese and East Asian context, currently based in New York, Melbourne and Shanghai. Founded in 2020 by Guan Shaoshuang, Vanilla Chi, Mao Zhe and You Liang, Focusing on the visual arts and simplified Chinese writing, reflects on today's art historical, sociological, and aesthetic concepts.
Photoverge Studios
Everett
Everett
Photoverge Studios is a small press publishing photobooks and zines as well as books and zines about photography. Founded by virgil.alonso, Photoverge Studios collaborates with photographers around the Pacific Northwest to publish their work.
pocket press
Portland
Portland
We are a couple of pals who like to make artist books and zines ! Working out of one of our members' kitchen (the ideal place for a risograph duplicator) or the community studio we volunteer in, we love to learn through making and have a special love for letterpress and risograph printing. Our books and zines are made sometimes together, sometimes separately, and through them we tend to explore daily narratives and use publication as a practice to contain things we might not understand.
Popla1000
Seattle
Seattle
Self publish artbooks and zines with a graphic design / image / collectors angle
Proyecto Piranha
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Proyecto Piranha is a small Risograph press and cultural programming project based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since 2016, we have focused on collaborating with Latin American visual artists and illustrators in the publication and distribution of their work.
We produce formats based on 'do it yourself' practices where the democratization of knowledge, shared learning among peers, and people's experimentation with their environment foster inclusive creation dynamics and expand the contemporary cultural scene.
Our work encompasses various practices involving printing, editing, distribution, and collaboration with different agents in the independent Latinx contemporary scene.
Raspberry Bow Press
Edison
Edison
We are a small press located in Skagit Valley, Washington. A collaboration by Michelle Gale and Tim Hubner, with experience in editorial, book-making, and design, we publish books and zines focusing on regional authors and artists with an emphasis on women and food. We print some of our books in our studio using our Risograph GR3750.
Really Easy Press
Seattle
Seattle
Over the last 6 or so years in Seattle I've had the pleasure of publishing myself and artists across the US and Canada. I've focused on Risograph comics and illustration zines. I took the last year off to focus on my band, but will be resuming publishing in 2025.
Saori8ta (Saori Hata)
Morrisville
Morrisville
I am a visual artist and bookmaker. My work explores personal experiences and perspectives to bring into unique visual narratives that transcend time and gender.
I studied Graphic and Editorial Design at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, Japan. Since 2018, I have been actively involved in the Tokyo art book scene, participating in major art book fairs such as Tokyo Art book Fair. I have published three self-authored, edited, and designed books, all of which are both selected for display and available in leading art bookshops in Tokyo. Two of these are collected in the Japanese National Diet Library.
In 2023, I relocated to North Carolina to expand my creative practice internationally. In 2024, I participated in local exhibitions and art book fairs in North Carolina, further expanding my creative network and opportunities. I have also collaborated with other artists, using my skills in art book design to help bring their projects, while continuing to develop my own visual art.
Secret Room Press
Portland
Portland
We have been publishing comics and art books since 2019, when we initially started Secret Room Press as a shared workspace and risograph studio. Since then, we have opened a shop & gallery alongside our publishing and risograph contract printing services. Myself and my partner John James are also educators and teach a 10-week risograph workshop (among other things), which includes bookmaking processes/projects, at Portland State University. We print exclusively with risograph.
self.img
Seattle
Seattle
self image and inward spirals explored through analog collages, zines, and mobiles.
Sequence
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Sequence is an emerging artist collective exploring gestures of care through collaboration and independent publishing. We also exercise the tactility of care through a parallel practice of Sequence Giftshop, where we design themed objects on a seasonal basis.
Slow Nights Studio
Seattle
Seattle
Slow Nights Studio is my creative practice founded in 2024, and I have been interested in book binding, printmaking, and art books since studying with Karen Kunc at the University of Nebraska nearly a decade ago. Over the last year and half I have self-published one comic, two photography-focused art books, and three zines. Currently, I have volume 2 of the comic series and 3 additional art books in production, all on track to be published in early 2025. Through events like the SABF, I have met so many incredible artists, publishers, and printmakers in the Seattle community that I am excited to continue learning from and collaborating with.
Small Brains
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City
We are a two man band of creatives who embrace their "small" brains, because thinking big is overrated.
Sming Sming Books
Saratoga
Saratoga
Sming Sming Books is the publishing studio of artist Vivian Sming, experimenting with books as art, discourse, exhibition, and archive. Formed in 2017, the studio designs and publishes a wide range of artists' books, zines, and editions in close collaboration with artists whose works and ideas inform design, material, and printing choices. Sming Sming Books is invested in creating books from practices that are challenging to represent on paper. The studio is committed to promoting critical discourse and advancing cultural equity through the format of publishing.
snack break studio
Seattle
Seattle
snack break studio is the creative practice of Vivian Li and Shannon Kao. We make comics, illustrations, zines, and artists' books centering the idea that art should be fun to make and experience, and fundamentally approachable to anyone who is interested.
We want to learn and share stories, science, and history from those around us — recipe books that span generations, concertina books about the Olympic coast, and collaborative artist book projects. We believe that people like to create things and tell stories, and our work is about building tools, artwork, and spaces that encourage others to make art along with us.
As snack break studio, we have published and distributed risograph and screen printed books at Finnriver Book Fair, Portland Zine Symposium, and Olympia Zine Fest. Vivian's work can be found at www.vivianlikesfruit.com and Shannon can be found at www.shannonkao.com
Space Type
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
Space Type is an independent type foundry, design studio, and risograph press run by Lynne Yun (Korean / American) and Kevin Yeh (Chinese / Burmese-American.) Rooted in playful expression and experimentation, we create and release original typefaces, build custom generative design tools for web and publication, and produce hand-crafted prints, zines, cards, booklets, and locally-made apparel and home goods in collaboration with members of our communities.
Some of our zines relate directly to collaborative experiences in workshops and courses run by Space Type through Type Electives, including our Extreme Metal Lettering and Techniculture zines; while others are inspired by our ethnic backgrounds, including colorful 26-page Korean folklore A-Z accordion booklets; KittyPop teen magazines inspired by early 2000's korean teen mags; and a tiger zine highlighting collected ephemera from around the world through a cultural lens.
Taxonomy Press
Detroit
Detroit
Taxonomy Press is a risograph micropress operating in Detroit, Michigan run by Rachel Hays and a rotating crew of collaborators. We’re passionate about connecting people through print.
te editions
New York
New York
te editions is an independent publishing house founded in 2023, based in New York and Beijing. In 2021, we published the first issue of the annual bilingual publication te magazine. Each annual issue takes inspiration from the current moment, generates a theme best encapsulating the thinking sparked by that moment, and invites researchers and creators from different fields to share their work around it. In 2023, motivated by the observation that many young artists lack the experience and resources—such as funding, suitable editors, and publishers—and are often unfamiliar with the process of making books, we launched our artist book projects to help artists publish their books. Until now, we have worked with artists Hu Wei in 2023 and Wen-You Cai in 2024, publishing two art books "Three moments of a script that never was written but might have happened" and "Minnan Exit."
The Corners of Their Mouth Press
Seattle
Seattle
The Corners of Their Mouth Press is a two-person team who focuses on art- and research-focused zines about queerness, food, nature, and Midwestern ephemera. Elan Clement Robinson is the co-author, artist and graphic designer who creates the risograph prints, copper-plate etching, and comics for their solo and our collaborative zines. L.M. Zoller is the co-author/editor of our collaborative zines and the illustrator and collage-artist (printed on riso) for their solo work.
In our latest art and culture zine, The Queer Language of Flowers Volume 2 (Nov. 2024), Elan designed the three-color risograph cover and interior botanical studies in both pen and ink and copper-plate etching. Incorporating etching into our zines is new for 2024. Our older work (2017-2023) includes risograph printing, collage, and illustration; see our website for details.
Unpress 紙漿合作社
Los Angeles
Los Angeles
"Unpress" is a non-standard English term that refers to the act of releasing or canceling the pressing, squeezing, or compressing of something, returning it to its original state. The project of Unpress is initiated by three artists Howsem Huang, Sinistra Pan and Tung-Lin Tsai, the press aims to take the process of deconstruction with both a literal and conceptual approach. To examine the structure of the text and images, is to decontextualize and rethink the medium. From prints to paper, paper to pulp, the words and images collapse while the ideas reform. Our collaboration not only includes working on the same publication together, but we would also take things separately, inputting views from different, nationalities and cultural backgrounds.
UW Division of Design
Seattle
Seattle
UW Division of Design promotes a collaborative, diverse, and pragmatic
approach to design. Through their education, students practice design
thinking to solve real-world problems. Senior year students in Visual
Communication take a Publication Design course, exploring multi-page
layouts and bookbinding practices. The culmination is a completely
student designed publication, some of which are exhibited here,
alongside personal projects that continue their experimentation in form
and craft.
Wave Books
Seattle
Seattle
Wave Books is a press based in Seattle, dedicated to poetry and work by poets. We publish 10 to 12 titles per year, in beautifully crafted trade editions, as well as handmade ephemera, ebooks, and audiobooks. Our books represent an aesthetic range, though generally experimental, and we are fortunate to be able to work with many exciting contemporary poets and translators nationally and internationally.
Winter texts
Port Townsend
Port Townsend
Winter texts publishes odd and meaningful books of many genres. We cultivate, edit, write, design, and make these books with the intention making art-books within various frames of the publishing industry--with a particular eye for how the text, typesetting, design, and materiality come together into a singular experience of reading in place. In addition to publishing, we own and operate a new & used bookshop on the Olympic Peninsula.
Words by Heather Corcoran
St. Louis
St. Louis
In my practice, I think a lot about words. To me, the word is the most meaningful individual unit in a larger design system. I consider how words look and sound, what they say, and how their content, order, and size affect what they might mean. As a graphic designer for the past three decades, my practice is rooted typographically. I stand close to serifs and line weights, stepping back to watch text transform into texture like a tree growing leaves. I make art books, maps, and posters that consider personal history. They are about how the weather has been understood, our historical tendency to color code, fabric dyes, inhabiting places, persistent isolation, what home looks like depending on who you are, how short stories can express the micro-oppressions of women, and the mixed meanings of traveling to the water. The art books I design relate to the essays I write, which are attempts to reconcile my childhood as a Navy daughter with my adulthood as a mother and a designer.
Yewon Kwon
Seattle
Seattle
I am an independent publisher whose work focuses on traditional methods of printmaking, combined with unconventional content and means of making. My books are often small run with intricate detailing, dealing with topics like guilt and power fantasies. I do my best to have a wide range of prices to make my work accessible. In addition to my personal work, I also publish Pallor Pink, a biyearly collaborative series, and Gelkheht, a project with my partner Benjamin Kraco which combines experimental noise and publications.
Zine Hug
Seattle
Seattle
Zine Hug is the book and animation studio of Alex Barsky and Zack Lydon, based in Seattle, Wa. We publish our self-authored art books, zines, and comics and print everything with a palette of 9 colors on a risograph printer. Our current specialty is creating risograph animation by printing individual video frames, scanning the prints to capture the texture and color of the printmaking process, and then re-sequencing each scanned frame back into a video. We are continuing to experiment with the printing and transformations of digital and analog media.
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